The U.S. Senate approved the nomination of accused eco-terrorist Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management, overcoming Republican opposition by invoking cloture to end debate. The Senate voted for cloture 50-48 along party lines. Senators Rand Paul (R.-Ky.) and Jon Cornyn (R.-Texas) did not vote. Her nomination was approved by a 50-45 vote. The extent of Stone-Manning’s involvement in eco-terrorism has been a matter of significant dispute. In written testimony to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Stone-Manning maintained she “had no involvement in the spiking of trees” as a graduate student at the University of Montana, claiming she merely retyped and sent a written warning to the U.S. Forest Service from fellow activist John Blount about an act of tree spiking in Idaho’s Post Office Timber Sale, after which she worked with her attorney to gain immunity for testifying in the trial of Blount and …